Jim Rogers · 1994 · global

Jim Rogers's 1994 account of the round-the-world motorcycle journey he made with his girlfriend, riding some 100,000 miles across six continents while sizing up the world's markets as only a legendary investor would. Part travelogue, part investment manifesto, it is opinionated, energetic and shrewd. The actual route was a sprawling loop through many countries; mapped here as a representative eastward circumnavigation through the great Eurasian crossing.

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   Dublin

   Rogers sets off from Ireland on a motorcycle, intent on circling the globe and reading the world's economies from the saddle.

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   Holyhead

   The ferry from Dublin lands in Wales; Rogers and Plimpton ride east across Britain toward the Channel on their round-the-world motorcycle trip.

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   Dover

   The Channel crossing to the Continent, where the real distance of the journey begins to open out ahead of them.

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   Calais

   Ashore in France and pointed east - Germany, then the long haul across Asia lies beyond.

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   Berlin

   Across Europe to Berlin, the Cold War only just ended, the map of the continent being redrawn.

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   Moscow

   East to Moscow and a Soviet Union in collapse, opportunity and chaos everywhere he looks.

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   Irkutsk

   The long haul across Siberia to Irkutsk and Lake Baikal, thousands of empty miles of taiga.

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   Beijing

   Down into China and Beijing, where Rogers sees the coming economic giant decades ahead of the crowd.

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   Tokyo

   To Japan and the Pacific shore, the eastern edge of the great land crossing.

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    San Francisco

    Across the ocean to California, and on into the familiar vastness of America.

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    New York

    Coast to coast to New York, the markets of Wall Street and the journey nearly closed.

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    Dublin (return)

    And back across the Atlantic to Ireland, the circle of the world complete.